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International Space Station visible tonight

(April 7, 2014)
Michael West, director of astronomy at the Maria Mitchell Association, is advising star-gazers that the International Space Station will be visible over Nantucket and Cape Cod this evening at 8:41 p.m. The space station should be visible – cloud-cover permitting – for about five minutes, moving southwest to northeast, West said.

An eclipse of the moon will also be visible during the early morning of Tuesday, April 15, West said.

"Such
eclipses occur when the moon, Earth and sun are aligned in such a way
that our planet’s shadow creeps across the face of the full moon,
dimming its light and giving it a blood-red color. You’ll start to
notice the eclipse around 2 a.m. but the peak will occur from
3:08-4:23 a.m.," he said.